The Angle: Voting Isn’t Enough Edition

Missing the story: Barack Obama is finally delivering speeches with a more explicitly partisan message. But, Jamelle Bouie writes, the former president still seems to think that “just voting” will fix the problem, even as next-generation progressive politicians have figured out how to talk about the reality of voter suppression without discouraging civic involvement.

A stunner: It’s shocking that Les Moonves actually stepped down, Lili Loofbourow writes. Why are we still so pessimistic that such men will be accountable? “We must get over our surprise at his ouster,” Loofbourow argues. “If we do not demand or expect anything better than the rotten status quo, we are capitulating to it.”